are you using LVM but sometimes find it a bit difficult to keep track of your disk space? That's what happened with
our
numerous file servers and we decided to do something against it. So we came up with a nifty LVM visualization tool that generates interactive charts of the different LVM volume levels: PVs, VGs, LVs, and it also shows file system filling levels. It uses AJAX to generate the graphs one by one and also supports LVM snapshots. You can try it live
here
and read about it
here.

in defense of Gnome 3 | 21.03.2011

why is
everybody and their dog
ranting about Gnome 3? When Fedora 15 came out, sporting the new Gnome 3 desktop, I just tried it. I had been using Gnome 2 before. I performed the upgrade and I loved it from minute one. It is clean, intuitive, and, with the right shell extensions, has exactly the functionality I need from a desktop environment. Maybe y'all just hate it because it's new?

oh Black Forest, | 17.03.2011

I missed you!

Orchid | 11.03.2012

nice nice | 02.01.2012

6 days of snow fun

Xmas present | 24.12.2011

Awesome road trip from Houston to San Francisco. Thanks to all my friends who hosted us.

today everything on d.o moved to a new machine, running Debian sarge on a RAID5.

Fancy clouds.. | 22.03.2005

.. on a lovely day

Trashing frenzy | 17.03.2005

There goes my old hardware

more XSLT fun | 20.02.2005

apart from the XHTML you're looking at and the RSS feed, we now also generate a PDF version of this blog (using FOP).

What a piece of crap | 23.01.2005

for some stupid reason, I installed IE 6.0 under wine on my Linux machine. Then I used it to have a look at my website. All validated XHTML and CSS, clean and simple. Now check what this pathetic shitty bastard made with my layout. How can 90% of all people use this bullshit?

if some things on this website look strange to you (like CSS, transparent PNGs or the scroll behaviour), you should stop using IE (which you should do for any other reason anyway) and switch to a real browser.

19.04.2004 - Xbox Linux cluster

today we performed MPI speed tests on Xbox Linux.

18.04.2004 - at least they're honest

this is how the craftsmen signed the big modification our house is currently undergoing. 'Murks' means 'botch'.

on sat my new server died. Just froze or rebooted. After buying a new Shuttle board and a 1.7 Celeron, I examined the
old board. Apparently it suffered from a known problem: shitty capacitors
spill their electrolyte all over the place. Not a good idea in a server. Check out the mess they made on the pictures.

new digicam! | 10.04.2003

I replaced my HP618 with the wonderful Pentax Optio S. Now this is an amazing piece of technology.

new server! | 01.04.2003

all my domains moved to a new server. The old 486/66 has served me well in the last 4 years, but now it's time for a Celeron/800, 512M, RAID1, and latest RH8.

nixies are alive! | 09.02.2003

In the last days I built a nixie clock. Radio controlled and all. As soon as everything is finished (case, software..), I will provide schematics, the PCB layout and the microcontroller software.

we just got a wireless access point for our appartment. Web surfing in the garden, here I come...

wiring the new apartment | 20.04.2002

I just moved in to Anthony's apartment. Now we're wiring it, 2 ethernet cables to every room (including kitchen), the projector and the dolby digital system go to the living room. Now we only have to find the time to watch any of the 438 TV channels the DVB receiver offers...oh yes, and 2 Mbit on the desktop are nice, too. Thanks Anthony ;-)

First days at ETH | 05.04.2002

I'm now back to Zurich and ETH, and I'm really excited about all the stuff we're gonna do in the next months.

Great Linux firewall | 06.03.2002

Today I tried fli4l, a great one-disk linux firewall solution. Take an old 486, strip out everything except floppy drive, network card and isdn (or DSL) card, edit 4 config files, boot from the floppy disk and you have a nice firewall.

Got myself a PhD position! | 18.01.2002

Starting April 1st, I will work in Günter's nonlinear optics group at ETH towards my PhD degree. It's about circular optical microresonators for smaller and faster optical switches and filters.

Europe's got the Euro | 04.01.2002

So they've really done it. We have the Euro. Apparently my job at Commerzbank has not been that bad as they're still alive. Only minor problems throughout Europe. Greatest currency conversion of all times. Wow!

My vacation is over. Yeah, it's only been one week, but I liked it a lot. If you ever happen to be around, be sure to visit Amrum, a nice little island south of Sylt with beaches like in the Carribean. See the pix section for details...

vacation | 22.07.2001

I will be on vacation until 30.07.01. As all good last-minute offers are already gone, I will spend one week in Husum, North Sea. Prepare for some pictures when I'm back!

Today I visited the LinuxTag in Stuttgart. Apart from all the booths, I attended ESR's talk on the Open Source community and CmdrTaco's keynote. Very phunny both of them...

my first real job | 21.03.2001

Last week, I finished my studies at ETH Zurich. I now proudly call myself Dipl. Phys. ETH! Without any time to get bored, I already started my new job today: I am working as an IT consultant for Commerzbank in Frankfurt. We are doing source code analysis and are trying to squeeze out all bugs in the transition from DEM to EUR.